Concept

Monism

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view that attributes oneness or singleness to a concept

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If a thing were once disconnected, it could never be connected again, according to monism. The pragmatic difference between the two systems is thus a definite one. It is just thus, that if _a_ is once out of sight of _b_ or out of touch with it, or, more briefly, 'out' of it at all, then, according to monism, it must always remain so, they can never get together; whereas pluralism admits that on another occasion…
William James, A Pluralistic Universe
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If the so-called monism does not do this, it changes into a real dualism, as would clearly happen in the above-suggested rationalistic explanation of a miracle. In fact monism is only scientifically justified in its view of the relation between psychical and physical, as long as it emphasises the fact that the human being can just as little be considered a purely physical as a purely psychical being, and that man…
Wilhelm Max Wundt, An Introduction to Psychology Translated from the Second German Edition
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Observe how radical the character of the monism here is. Separation is not simply overcome by the One, it is denied to exist. There is no many.
William James, Pragmatism
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